Simple Past, Present and Future
Form and use the simple past, present, and future verb tenses consistently in writing
Lesson
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Choose simple past, simple present and a will-future form, and keep a paragraph in its intended time.
Before teaching
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Ask the learner to change 'I play' to a sentence about yesterday and to identify the verb. Revisit the canonical past/present prerequisite if the time or verb is unclear. Explain that simple present often describes a habit; an action happening right now often needs a progressive form instead. Check subject agreement in a habit sentence: ask the learner to change 'I jump each day' to a sentence starting with 'She'. If needed, model 'I jump each day. She jumps each day.' Explain that with he, she or it, many simple-present verbs add -s. Then guide a different example: ask the learner to change 'I kick a ball each day' to start with 'He'. After the attempt, confirm 'He kicks a ball each day.' Give support before Try if needed. Record subject agreement and time choice separately. Put these examples aside before Try.
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Choose simple past, simple present and a will-future form, and keep a paragraph in its intended time.
Choose simple past, simple present and a will-future form, and keep a paragraph in its intended time.
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Florida Center for Reading Research · Practice link — not the full lesson
Second and Third Grade
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Free FSU/FCRR grades 2–3 student-center catalogue useful for simple past, present, and future wording. An adult picks one PDF; the page is a catalogue, not a single game.
Free university printables, no sign-in. An adult picks one activity PDF.
Before you openAsk the learner to retell one short event in past, present, and future.
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Public Florida Center for Reading Research (FSU) student-center catalogue. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this index page. Individual activity PDFs were not downloaded in this check. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult must choose one printable from the catalogue.
Florida Center for Reading Research. “Second and Third Grade.” External catalogue; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute printables.
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Check understanding
- Rewrite 'I walk to school' in past tense ('I walked') and future tense ('I will walk')
- Identify and correct inconsistent tense in 'Yesterday she walks to the shop and bought milk'
- Write a three-sentence paragraph maintaining consistent future tense throughout
“When your child writes about something that happened yesterday, something happening now, and something that will happen tomorrow, do they change the verb correctly for each time — like "I walked", "I walk", and "I will walk"?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Grammar & Punctuation
- Age range
- Ages 6–10
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